ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,217, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"P2P transmission method" was invented by Sanggook Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jeongki Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jinsoo Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitting STA can directly communicate with a receiving STA in a wireless local area network (wireless LAN) system. The transmitting STA can transmit, to an AP, a request signal for a P2P transmission at a determined time or a random time and, when a trigger frame is received from the AP, the transmitting STA can perform P2P communication with a receiving STA on the basis of...